Manager, Finance Business Partner

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title And Summary
Manager, Finance Business Partner

Overview
Mastercard's Technology (TECH) Business Unit operates the company's integrated global payments processing network. TECH uses its expertise to make payments safe, simple, and smart. TECH Finance team strives to provide accurate financial and operational data to our business partners to enable sound financial decision making.

The Finance Business Partner is responsible for providing financial guidance and support to our business partners, reporting, planning including budget & forecast, and ad-hoc analysis. Key to prospering in this role are the abilities to interpret data, devise strategic plans, assume leadership, and cultivate connections with colleagues across the global Mastercard network. Duties include managing all facets of the routine financial tasks such as facilitating the monthly close, preparing annual budgets and routine forecasts, conducting financial analyses, identifying financial variances, as well as highlighting potential opportunities and risks.

Role

• Manage all aspects of the day-to-day financial responsibilities such as monthly close, annual budget/regular forecast, financial reporting, variance analysis, opportunities and risks.
• Manage, develop and create standardized financial reporting packages that will help drive and support the business and create valuable insights for management to support decisions.
• Assist with strategy and process improvements related to budgeting, forecasting, systems and other key areas to ensure alignment with market objectives; proactively identify ways to improve processes and execute agreed upon improvements
• Investigate and create opportunities for automation and more efficient methods of report creation and delivery anticipating needs of internal customers, members and other stakeholders
• Identify, analyze, and communicate trends and issues affecting the business, including addressing ad hoc financial queries or analysis, and assist to formulate and drive mitigation plans
• Represent Finance as a key stakeholder in various management meetings
• Support financial reporting process for all major localization initiatives
• Check and maintain the integrity of financial models and add improvements where possible.
• Build and maintain tools and reports; may serve as a go-to resource for financial technology (e.g.. Hyperion, Oracle)

All About You

• Master's in Finance or CPA preferred
• Excellent finance skills including modelling/business case development and scenario analysis, budget, planning and forecast experience
• Strong experience of expense forecasting and variance analysis; experience of Technology expense forecasting is a plus
• Ability to translate complex information into simple parts
• Demonstrates strong self-awareness, keenness to learn and a strategic mindset. Open to different approaches and ideas and willing to challenge status quo to drive new business initiatives.
• Ability to perform successfully in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment and manage multiple priorities and assignments concurrently
• Strong communicator with experience working with colleagues from other business units and markets
• Experience creating and delivering presentations for internal learning, training events and/or business discussions
• Strong sense of urgency; excels in a deadline driven work environment
• Strong skills in Hyperion, Excel and PowerPoint required

Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.